hey steve - is that a Lake Taneycomo rainbow ? Nice outfit. Great reel... rare. Brian
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Posts: 1163 05/19/2009 22:16 MO/ARK Trout Bum |
" Just once, I wish a trout would wink at me. "
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Posts: 45 05/20/2009 07:37 |
Brian, it's not a Taneycomo trout........Roaring River.....in the catch and release area......it's a matter of convenience....RR is just 30 minutes
from the house......many Sunday afternoons are spent there......but I have got to find a new place.....the whole world is there....too many
people....."catfishing" for trout......out state parks are wonderful, but it seems they cater to the "meat" fisherman........it would be
great with me if the park system would go to C & R period!......they could lower their costs substansially and us fly guys would have a little more
solitude.....steve
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Posts: 1317 05/23/2009 08:55 |
Milward Flycraft and Leonard DF50. |
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Trying out my Titanium Special @ the NFC CLUB | #424 | ||
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Posts: 1318 05/23/2009 11:20 |
Wow. Nice outfit, fish and scenery. |
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afgantrout |
Not a Gaula salmon...but | #426 | ||
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Posts: 550 05/23/2009 16:13 |
  
Yesterday on Virginia's lovely South River in Waynesboro, I set out to catch some trout on my latest combo. The trout were not as cooperative as they generally are and by the end of the day, I'd taken 3 modest rainbows, about a dozen Fallfish and about two dozen of these pretty fellows known locally as 'hornyheads'. They all seemed to prefer the Tups over the Partridge and Green. On leaving, I chatted with another angler and told him I owed my alledged success to my 250 years of experience (50 for me, 100 each for the rod and reel) and I could probably throw in another 50 for the level silk line I used. The one downside was that after putting that line on this new-to-me reel, it ate about a foot of 4Xtippet and would barely turn...so I fished with about 30 feet of line looped in my left hand...worked pretty good, I must say!
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afgantrout |
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure | #427 | ||
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Posts: 551 05/23/2009 16:22 |
 
'Bill' is my splendid Bill Harms 7.5' 4-weight and 'Ted' is my lovely Ted Godfrey 'Little Brook Trout'. I took them to experience Big Hunting Creek for our first time. Very pleasant! My host, Dan Gilman brought his spectacular Bill Taylor quad with a rattan grip and matched it with a Hardy Featherweight. The stream and its trout were beautiful...and so was our tackle!
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Cadnorods |
Mayfly hatch on the Usk | #428 | ||
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Posts: 201 05/23/2009 19:22 |
Spent a wonderful 2 hours on the Usk this afternoon, just in time for the first big mayfly hatch...so got some action for the Beaudex and the Farlows:
Four lovely wild fish, all taken 'technical casting' under bushes and overhanging trees from which the mayfly were dropping into the trout's mouths! It just doesn't get any better than that. Stuart |
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Posts: 2710 05/24/2009 12:36 |
afgantrout wrote: "Hornyheads"!!!!!! Michael, thank you for posting the pic of the hornyhead. That is also what we call them here in the Ole North State. Brought back a flood of memories of my little brother and I catching them with most technical equipment. A strip of sapling for the pole, a length of mono tied directly to the end of the pole, a red and white small bobber, a #10 Eagle Claw hook, and a fat ole nightcrawler. Gosh, what times we had fishing the little warm water creek below our home! What times! Bob 
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Posts: 555 05/24/2009 13:31 |
Mr. Gee,
I'm delighted you enjoyed the hornyhead! BTW I spent an hour yesterday with my new, most favorite reel...and with perseverance I retrieved centimeter by centimeter...all the tippet I'd allowed to get in there. It's now clicking away nicely. Arrividerci, Bubba! PS I believe it was the late Lee Wulff who frequently said:"A Hornyhead is too good a gamefish to be enjoyed only once".
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Posts: 2711 05/24/2009 14:10 |
afgantrout wrote: Yes, Mr. Wulff was quite enamored with the Hornyhead. He was often heard to mutter, "it rivals an Atlantic Salmon on a 6' Banty rod for its feistyness! Hasta la vista, Leonardo! BobbyG Go Heels!!! |
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Two of this year's new rods with their reels and fish | #432 | ||
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Posts: 1334 05/25/2009 17:34 |
On the evenings of the Canadian Cane get-together. A 6ft two weight , taper based on the Leonard Baby Catskill, with a 2 1/2" Uniqua and a little stocker
from the Grand River
Maker of light line nodeless bamboo fly rods
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Posts: 273 05/25/2009 21:55 |
First time out on the stream for my new Young 14A red agate and homemade PHY Driggs
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Posts: 171 05/26/2009 17:03 |
Large Grand river brown and a Peerless 1.5 .
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Posts: 1319 05/27/2009 16:02 |
Beautiful picture, Coldreive.
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Posts: 172 05/28/2009 10:05 |
Thanks . I recieved some ribbing from a guide friend for cutting the tail off and thus ending his chances at figuring out its length . For comparison my net is
27" in length .
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NICE! | #437 | ||
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Posts: 214 05/28/2009 17:38 |
Of course, I have to ask what rod was allowed to grace the Peerless 1.5 and that fine trout?
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Posts: 173 05/28/2009 17:51 |
A Granger 8040 I fuddled together from a blank . Very nice casting rod though I have to admit I was scared for its safety a couple of times that day .
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greenwell |
Nice Fresh One On the Hardy Ti Reel | #439 | ||
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Posts: 17 06/02/2009 07:26 |
Check this out for some great sport,Land of the midnight sun,
http://www.nfc-online.com/. |
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Posts: 49 06/02/2009 13:08 |
Dingley on my new PHY Perfectionist by AJ.
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